Negative Decision in the asylum procedure – Entscheidung
Flyer – 27. October 2023
The federal offices decision will be sent to you in writing in a yellow letter. If you have a legal adviser, your lawyer will receive the letters.
If you get a positive answer, you can stay – you will have to do now a lot of other bureaucratic stuff and may need some help from migration counselling offices, but you have a residency for a certain period in Germany.
There are 3 types of refusals:
inadmissible “unzulässig”
- For Dublin refusals and a second asylum applications “Folgeantrag”.
- A rejection as inadmissible means that your reasons for seeking asylum are not thoroughly examined, but that Germany does not consider your asylum application necessary.
- You have 2 weeks for a legal complaint. This complaint does not protect you from deportation. You must additionally file an urgent application for protection against deportation – “Eilantrag”
simply unfounded – “abgelehnt”
- The decision from the BAMF then states: Your asylum application is rejected
- You have 2 weeks for a legal complaint. This complaint protects you from deportation for the duration of the complaint proceedings.
manifestly unfounded “offensichtlich unbegründet”
- You have 1 week for a legal complaint. This complaint does not protect you from deportation. You must additionally file an urgent application for protection against deportation – “Eilantrag”
Contact a counselling office on asylum matters or a lawyer (see list below of free counselling offices). You have to file a legal complaint in front of the local administrative court against the decision as soon as possible.
The german asylum system is very complicated to give you all information in a short flyer, so please use further information given in all our flyers to educate yourself and also use workshops for refugees and volunteers in which the german asylum system is be teached, e.g. from the Saxon Refugee Council. bbonlink.de/sfr2
Free Counselling on Asylum Matters in Saxony
Saxony:
Additionally in Dresden:
Additionally in Leipzig:
For LSBTIANQ* Refugees
- Dresden – Gerede e.V: bbonlink.de/gerede
- Leipzig – RosaLinde Leipzig e.V.: bbonlink.de/rosalinde
- Chemnitz – LSVD: bbonlink.de/lsvd
If you cannot be helped there, the counsellors will recommend specialised lawyers. Please decide on a counselling centre or inform a new counselling centre about support provided so far. You may have to wait a few weeks for an appointment. If you have a time limit for filing a claim, tell us when you make your appointment. Please take all important documents (e.g. certificates) and all letters you have received from German authorities with you to the appointment.
Returning from Germany
If you want to leave Germany you can apply for support. Here you find more information in different languages. These are information from the german government.
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